Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-06-24
The Chip Basket.

Make pets of all the animals.-Farm
Journal
We have polecats in New England,
Friend Atkinson You wouldn't have US
make pets of them. Phew!-Our Country
Homes.
LIE: us stop talking of overproduction
until the distribution OF fruits is so per-
feet that all, in city, village and country,
who would do so, can buy at fair price.
Not there vet.
In pruning trees of any kind it is better
to have one strong branch or limb than
two or three week ones, says Popular
Gardening. 1t is better to keep limbs
thini.ed out than to cut back and make too
close heads. Let the suns rays in all
through the tree.
And oh, pusley! How easy to exter-
inmate that cunning little weed when we
see it coming to the surface like a swarm
OF red spiders dotting the ground! How
hard to kill it, week or ten DAYS later
when the hot sun has helped it to form a
succulent mat that fire will hardly van
qush DR.. T. II. HoSkins.
A correspondent says he breaks his
horses of the habit of kicking back the
bedding in the stable by placing rope
closely behind the horses, across the stall,
and drawing it tight Then he ties the
animal short. and uses sawdust for bed
ding few nights, when the habit will be
overcome. -National Farmer.
The editor of the Rural New Yorker
says he is treating potato bugs to Il mix
ture of one pound of Paris green to bar
| Il - L., IL.
one-hat the amount of Paris green would
be sufficient if thoroughly Incorporated
with the plaster There is no doubt that
as a rule stronger doses of all insecticides
are used than are needed
Good butter cows will make pound of
butter to every fourteen or eighteen pounds
of milk. General purpose cows" want
| from twenty-five to thirty one pounds, and
some cows would require fifty pounds of
milk to make pound of butter Average
diaries require somewhere about twenty
five pounds of milk to make a pound of
butter
When our land workers will remember
that five acres well cared Tor will produce
larger crop, in dollars and cents, than
twenty acres inditferently cultivated. and
pl dttlCc dltCI luIo lOi lilCil anu UOG
till then may they hope to make agricul-
ture and kindred work what it is designed
to be, the grandest. rOblest occupation of
man.-Our Country Homes.
The man who is able to ENJOY the
common pleasures of country life, who
takes pride in his garden-even though
it be window garden-and who retains
this taste, even though forced by circum-
stances to live the year round in town.
will, in nine cases out of ten, be found to
be man of simple tastes, of homely
habits, of religious mind, and the pos
SCISSOR OF kindly disposition" Social
ArroUS."
| For farmers use, a horse is worth
more at seven than at any other age. He
has nearly as many years of service be-
| fore him as at less age, and at seven is
past the age of being strained or injured
by overwork. How old he must be be-
fore becoming superannuated depends up
becomes played out at an age when one
well treated is still able to do good service
-NeW England Farmer.
For Butter Making, the milk should be
set as soon as possible, after being drawn
from the COW. The less the agitation, the
less the exposure to the atmosphere, and
the higher the temperature. the better
High scalding is Objectionable. 1t de.
stroys germs of decay and improves the
keeping quality. but Injuries the flavor OF
the product, making it fiat and inspid
But. if the temperature has run down
much below blood heat. it is better to raise
it again to or near that point Pratri,
Farmer.
Brother farmers. do not forget that mil
lions of eggs are every year imported from
France and other countries, and wake NJ
this easiest, most profitable and most in
teresting branch of farming. How many
farmers keep drowsy, detected. folorn
looking Improbable LOT of hens! Neigh
. bors and visitors frequently make remark
about my brood. Nothing at all but plent,
of any kind of feed. shells, bones. milk
ashts or dust. and all the ranging room
they choose. Under these conditions the,
] scarcely damage anything. A ploughet
, tield-repeatedly ploughed-is tor them
most delightful resort; they fairly chuckl'
over the luscious morsels that abount
everywhere in the freshly turned earth
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